Incident Score: Analysis & Impact (KAS1784744898)
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Key Highlights From The Incident Analysis
- Timeline of Kaspersky's Ransomware and lateral movement inside company's environment.
- Overview of affected data sets, including SSNs and PHI, and why they materially increase incident severity.
- How Rankiteo’s incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score.
- How this cyber incident impacts Kaspersky Rankiteo cyber scoring and cyber rating.
- Rankiteo’s MITRE ATT&CK correlation analysis for this incident, with associated confidence level.
Full Incident Analysis Transcript
In this Rankiteo incident briefing, we review the Kaspersky breach identified under incident ID KAS1784744898.
The analysis begins with a detailed overview of Kaspersky's information like the linkedin page: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kaspersky, the number of followers: 565687, the industry type: Computer and Network Security and the number of employees: 4603 employees
After the initial compromise, the video explains how Rankiteo's incident engine converts technical details into a normalized incident score. The incident score before the incident was 631 and after the incident was 494 with a difference of -137 which is could be a good indicator of the severity and impact of the incident.
In the next step of the video, we will analyze in more details the incident and the impact it had on Kaspersky and their customers.
A newly reported cybersecurity incident, "Ransomware Group 'XEntry Team' Exploits Misconfigurations in Colombia and Mexico", has drawn attention.
Security researchers at Kaspersky uncovered two ransomware attacks in Colombia and Mexico where cybercriminals exploited misconfigured systems to deploy BitLocker encryption and print ransom notes via office printers.
The disruption is felt across the environment, and exposing 8 terabytes (Colombia incident), plus an estimated financial loss of $3,000 (Colombia incident).
Formal response steps have not been shared publicly yet.
The case underscores how Partial (Colombia incident due to insufficient forensic evidence), teams are taking away lessons such as Misconfigurations account for over 13% of cyber incidents globally. Strict adherence to security best practices is necessary, particularly in managing exposed services like RDP, and recommending next steps like Improve system configurations, secure exposed services like RDP, and monitor for misconfigurations.
Finally, we try to match the incident with the MITRE ATT&CK framework to see if there is any correlation between the incident and the MITRE ATT&CK framework.
The MITRE ATT&CK framework is a knowledge base of techniques and sub-techniques that are used to describe the tactics and procedures of cyber adversaries. It is a powerful tool for understanding the threat landscape and for developing effective defense strategies.
MITRE ATT&CK® Correlation Analysis
Rankiteo's analysis has identified several MITRE ATT&CK tactics and techniques associated with this incident, each with varying levels of confidence based on available evidence. Under the Initial Access tactic, the analysis identified External Remote Services (T1133) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating exposed Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), allowing easy access and Exploitation of Remote Services (T1210) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating misconfigured MSSQL service, gaining privileged access. Under the Execution tactic, the analysis identified Command and Scripting Interpreter (T1059) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating deployed web shells, and evaded detection. Under the Persistence tactic, the analysis identified Create Account (T1136) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating gaining privileged access via misconfigured MSSQL service and Server Software Component (T1505) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating deployed web shells. Under the Privilege Escalation tactic, the analysis identified Exploitation for Privilege Escalation (T1068) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating gaining privileged access via misconfigured MSSQL service. Under the Defense Evasion tactic, the analysis identified Impair Defenses: Disable or Modify Tools (T1562.001) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating disabling its Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) due to compatibility issues and Indicator Removal (T1070) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating evaded detection despite triggering EPP alerts. Under the Credential Access tactic, the analysis identified Brute Force (T1110) with moderate confidence (60%), supported by evidence indicating exposed RDP, allowing easy access. Under the Discovery tactic, the analysis identified Network Service Discovery (T1046) with moderate to high confidence (70%), supported by evidence indicating identified misconfigurations in the MSSQL service. Under the Lateral Movement tactic, the analysis identified Remote Services: Remote Desktop Protocol (T1021.001) with moderate to high confidence (80%), supported by evidence indicating exposed Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP), allowing easy access. Under the Impact tactic, the analysis identified Data Encrypted for Impact (T1486) with high confidence (90%), supported by evidence indicating deploy BitLocker encryption and print ransom notes via office printers. Under the Exfiltration tactic, the analysis identified Exfiltration Over C2 Channel (T1041) with moderate confidence (50%), supported by evidence indicating 8 terabytes of critical data targeted. These correlations help security teams understand the attack chain and develop appropriate defensive measures based on the observed tactics and techniques.
Sources & References
- Kaspersky Rankiteo Cyber Incident Details: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/kaspersky/incident/KAS1784744898
- Kaspersky CyberSecurity Rating page: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/kaspersky
- Kaspersky Rankiteo Cyber Incident Blog Article: https://blog.rankiteo.com/kas1784744898-unnamed-organization-in-colombia-ransomware-april-2026/
- Kaspersky CyberSecurity Score History: https://www.rankiteo.com/company/kaspersky/history
- Kaspersky CyberSecurity Incident Source: https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/a-bizarre-new-malware-campaign-hacks-your-printer-and-forces-it-to-print-out-ransomware-demands
- Rankiteo A.I CyberSecurity Rating methodology: https://www.rankiteo.com/Images/rankiteo_algo.pdf
- Rankiteo TPRM Scoring methodology: https://static.rankiteo.com/model/rankiteo_tprm_methodology.pdf